Sunday, August 23, 2009

Just got back from NY city and a wonderful week with Judy. Brief but fun. On the agenda...we'll we saw a Broadway play (Wicked),

I went to Coney Island (more on that later),

hung with Michelle Ward who took us to the site of the building featured on the Led Zeppelin album cover Physical Graffiti,

One night we had dinner with a relative of Judy's who has lived in the city since '52...in fact he used to do Marilyn Monroe's hair...sorry he wouldn't give up any gossip....anyway he gave us a great tour of Columbus Square and Greenwich Village.

A great trip...ended to soon. I'll see her in Mexico during my Oaxaca workshop though....coming up fast.

Next up on the old trail is back to California. Tangerine in the East Bay Area....my old stomping ground...sweeeeet. Holy Rolling Hot Wheels, deMented Toys, and What a Relief are on the agenda there. I'll be there from Oct. 18th-20th

Mexico

Ah yes...then my favorite place in the world Oaxaca for Day of the Dead. We are almost full but a few spots are left. If you're pondering nows the time to act...

Down Under

Last up for the year... off to Australia for a workshop in Melbourne. Kathy and Marg are once again hosting me for some deMented Toy action!

Class Playlist Update

I recently heard a song by Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros called "Home". Way cool! Sort of an alt-country ditty. Its an L.A. band but if you don't get a bit of June Carter and Johnny Cash out of the deal I'd be surprised.

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Michael deMeng is an assemblage artist from Vancouver, Canada who exhibits throughout the United States. As an educator, he has been actively involved with VSA Montana, providing art education and encouraging participation in the arts to people with disabilities. Through these activities, as well as his artwork, deMeng fosters community awareness, and offers creative methods to explore the human experience.

In his art, he addresses issues of transformation. Discarded materials find new and unexpected uses in his work; they are reassembled and conjoined with unlikely components, a form of rebirth from the ashes into new life and new meaning.

These assemblages are metaphors for the evolutions and revolutions of existence: from life to death to rebirth, from new to old to renewed, from construction to destruction to reconstruction. These forms are examinations of the world in perpetual flux, where meaning and function are ever-changing.